Multiple live performances on oceanfront stages attract tens of thousands of visitors and residents of Hampton Roads to a “star-spangled” salute to this great country of ours at Stars & Stripes Explosion!  Musical acts offer something for everyone with tribute bands saluting some of the biggest names in music. From 8:00pm-9:30pm, a stage erected right on the beach at 20th Street becomes the focal point for performances by Symphonicity (the symphony orchestra of Virginia Beach) together with the Virginia Beach Chorale.  This musical program encompasses patriotic songs, Broadway standards, movie themes, and folk music.  The show segues into a spectacular fireworks show at 9:30pm that explodes over the ocean in a burst of colors and patterns!

Entertainment Schedule

17th St. Park
Local 34 (7:30pm-10:45pm)

20th St. on the Beach (FIREWORKS 9:30pm)
Symphonicity and the Virginia Beach Chorale (8pm-9:30pm)
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24th St. Park
Chester B's Motown Tribute Show (8pm-10:30pm)

31st St. Park
Who's Bad "Michael Jackson Tribute" (8pm-9:30pm)

Symphonicity Stage 20th St. on the Beach Program:
National Anthem
Strike Up the Band: Whitney/Gershwin
Americana: Luigi Zaninelli
   
Virginia Beach Chorale
This arrangement includes:
         Shenandoah
         Skip to my Lou
         Sweet Betsy from Pike
   
Salute to the Big Apple: Arranged by Calvin Custer
This arrangement includes:
Theme from New York, New York
Forty-Second Street
Lullaby of Broadway

Cole Porter Salute: Arranged by John Whitney
This arrangement will be sung by Kimberly Markham and includes:
    Another Opening, Another Show
    In the Still of the Night
    Anything Goes
    Night and Day

A Touch of Jazz: Arranged by Jerry Brubaker
 
American Patrol: F. W. Meacham

Les Miserables: Lowden/Schoenberg

Kimberly Markham, soprano

Virginia Beach Chorale
This arrangement includes:
         At the End of the Day
         I Dreamed a Dream
         Master of the House
         On My Own
         Do You Hear the People Sing?
 
Doorway Singers

America the Beautiful: Ward/Bates

Hymn to the Fallen: John Williams
  
Anthem from Chess: Arranged by David Kunkel
Kimberly Markham, soprano
   
1812 Overture: Tchaikovsky
Stars and Stripes Forever: John Phillip Sousa